Newfane Elementary School
UNREST IN ASIA TIMELINE
REASONS FOR WAR
1. _________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________
KENNEDY & JOHNSON’S POLICIES TOWARDS VIETNAM
FIGHTING THE WAR
POLITICAL DIVISIONS & RESISTANCE TO THE WAR
THE END OF THE VIETNAM WAR
**Nation’s most costly war
**Support at an all time low
**Nixon widened military activities
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1955
- Aid increased to Vietnam
1956
- S. Vietnam refuses to hold elections
1960
- Vietcong (communist guerrillas) recognized as the National Liberation Front (NLF) of Vietnam
1953-1954
- Eisenhower debates on how much aid, support to French
1950-1953
- US provides aid to French’s struggle in Vietnam
1949
- Mao Zedong recognizes the gov’t under Ho Chi Minh
1946-1949
- “puppet leader” in effective against Ho Chi Minh
1954
- Geneva Accords divide Vietnam @ 17th parallel
- SEATO agrees to protect Vietnam
- N & S Vietnam agree to hold elections, reunite the country
Sept. 1945
- Ho Chi Minh (communists) proclaims Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• ______________________________________________
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• Increased American military advisors to Vietnam
• ______________________________________________
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• Intended to withdraw US from Vietnam
Kennedy’s Policy
• Viet Cong & National Liberation Front
• Henry Cabot Lodge – US ambassador to Vietnam
• __________________________________
o US destroyers attacked by North Vietnam
o _______________________________________ to repel any attack against US forces
o ____________________________________
• By 1965 President, had control, ______________________
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Johnson’s Policy
• Enemy did not wear uniforms
• Fought in the jungles of Southeast Asia
• No clear battlefront
• Land mines
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• Military escalation
• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• ______________________________________________________________________________________
o ______________________________________
o ______________________________________
• My Lai Massacre
Course of the War
1965-1968
• Introduction of B-52s
• Saturation bombing
• Fragmentation bombs
• _____________________________________________
• _____________________________________________
The Air War
• Fled to Canada
• Sought deferments to go to college
• Large number of minorities went to war
• ________________________________________________________________________
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• University of Calif. @_______________
• ________________________________
o __________________________
• The Free Speech Movement
• The Teach-In Movement
o Special sessions held by professors
• Washington DC
• NYC
• Pentagon
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Student Protests
Hawks & Doves
• Congress members divided on war
• ________________________________
• ________________________________
• Anti-war democrats running against Johnson (Robert Kennedy)
• Johnson decides not to run ( unpopular
• Democratic Convention chose pro-war candidate
o Rallies ( riots
• _______________________________________________
Election of 1968
• US politics acted in response to variety of public pressures
• US foreign policy supported view of US being involved in foreign affairs
• US questioned its role as world police officer
• Expansion of presidential powers during war time may not always be the best choice
o Limited after war
• _________________________________
o ________________________________ (18 yr old fighting should have a say)
Conclusions on Vietnam War
o US withdrew, while N. Vietnam overran S. Vietnam
o Saigon gov’t collapsed
o ______________________________
o _____________________________________
End of the Vietnam War
• Passed by Congress overriding Nixon’s veto
• _____________________________________________
o President had to notify Congress within 48 hrs. of sending troops to foreign country
o President had to bring troops home within 60 days unless congress voted them to stay
• ____________________________________________________________________________________________
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o Peace talks deadlocked
o 1973 – “peace with honor” & cease-fire would take place soon
Peace with Honor
• ______________________________
• Bombing Cambodia
o ________________________
o Support at an all time low
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